Welcome to Litsy!

Daniel Pinkwater is definitely a marmite author. Either you're totally willing to embrace an 11-year-old left on his own for a week who starts seeing a band of giant lizards playing music on late-night TV and then meets up with an old black man with a chicken on his head who seems to go by several mysterious aliases and they travel together to a floating invisible island to meet up with a bunch of lizards named Reynold... or you're not 😂

Cujo was the last book read in October and here is my October wrap up overall. Cujo definitely unlocked a new fear in me especially with rabies cases on the rise in my county and so many who don‘t follow leash laws. I definitely could have made bingo this month but it was nice to be busy with fun things like a concert and Halloween and meeting new people. Great month! #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #Chocolotiers #TBRTarot ⬇️

It‘s not important who you are; the only thing that matters is what kind of illness you suffer from.

This was a long, strange trip. A dystopian medical universe. Like reading a dream/nightmare crossover. 1984 vibes.

Book 1/Hospital ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#SPNBookBingo #Asylum #Witchathon
#AfterDarkBingo #ErasGhostBingo #SeriesLove
#OneSnackToRuleThemAll #TeamPumpkinSpice
#PumpkabooHunt(Lg) #LastPush #Read2025
#HauntedShelf #TBR 16 hrs

+336pts #BlackCatCrew

Twenty-five scary stays where ghosts check in, but don‘t check out.

This was interesting. Historical backgrounds and paranormal accounts of different hotels around the world.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#SPNBookBingo2025 #Route666
#Witchathon #AfterDarkBingo #ErasGhostBingo
#OneSnackToRuleThemAll #TeamPumpkinSpice
#PumpkabooHunt (Md) #Read2025 #HauntedShelf
#TBR 9 hrs

+221 points #BlackCatCrew

Not no but hell no. Yikes on bikes. I would have DNFd at about 50% but this was a book club book and I wanted to be able to discuss all the awful 😂 Luckily everyone pretty unanimously hated this one. The premise had potential but this was terrible. It‘s been marketed as dark gothic romance but this is not romance nor did it really feel like horror. It was like a mish mash of tropes and hoping for the best. 😬 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders ⬇️

This was a fun mystery, nothing groundbreaking. I enjoyed the banter and Mart's huge words. However, I needed more horses 😂 The villain felt ridiculously obvious here, but the other aspects of the mystery (how, why, time capsule, clues, etc) were fun.

#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam @ImperfectCJ
#WickedWords - Record @AsYouWish
#PumpkabooHunt @PuddleJumper
#OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #AllThingsApple @Bookwormjillk
#ISpyBingo #BookSpinBingo

I picked this one up because it is by an Ohio author who decided to use the Buckeye Trail (a trail that travels in a circle around Ohio) as part of her setting. However, this just didn't really work for me. A lot of the characters' actions didn't really make sense, especially towards the end. The motivation of the killer also had me a little confused as well. It was an okay read, but I don't see myself picking up the sequel.

Some of you might remember I posted about a local bookclub that was just getting started in SA.. well this was our first book. Post Stolen from IG from one of the other ladies in our book club who makes book themed cocktails. I loved this story that is set in the world of the Ruinous Love trilogy. If you read Butcher and Blackbird, the FMC in this book was a minor character. This book is the start of a trilogy all focused on the same couple. ⬇️

This was a reread for me, and while I always love reading along with the #HashtagBrigade , ol' Victor got on my nerves even more this time around. He's just so useless! If he spent half the time actually doing something productive as he does sitting around and bemoaning his fate, the creature wouldn't have had the opportunities for destruction that he had. In the end, I think both Frankenstein and the creature are both monsters. This book ⬇

I got slightly confused and read November's #ChristieCapers book instead of October's 😂 I love Tommy and Tuppence, and the concept here is fun. However, this one always falls a little flat for me because I'm just not familiar enough with the classic detectives Christie references throughout the book. Still, some of the mysteries are quite good, and I do love the way Christie spoofs Hercule Poirot at the end.